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Nominator's rationale: "Quantum electrodynamicist" is not a term normally used. Nearly all modern physicists accept Quantum ElectroDynamics, but this category is not useful or informative. Please stop adding physicists to this category until it gets wider acceptance.
HouseOfChange (
talk) 20:25, 10 January 2021 (UTC)reply
This term means a field of study, not a view. Similarily, there is a category 'Quantum physicists' which includes people working in the field; not every physicist works in it. --
Tarnoob (
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Reply This is a brand-new category, just created by
Tarnoob a few hours ago. The only members of this category are people that Tarnoob has added to it -- in the case of Dyson at least by changing the
Category:Quantum physicists into
Category:Quantum electrodynamicists. I have asked physicists of my acquaintance about this. People who work on QED are not referred to as "quantum electrodynamicists." Shut this down please, before there is more of a mess to clean up after.
HouseOfChange (
talk) 21:34, 10 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Reply Maybe it should be renamed – e.g. 'Quantum electrodynamics researchers', similarly to, say, 'Loop quantum gravity researchers' and a lot of similarly named sub-categories of 'Researchers'? Or, 'Quantum electrodynamics physicists', but I'm not sure if it's grammatical. --
Tarnoob (
talk) 21:41, 10 January 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Marcocapelle: My apologies for an unclear answer. Yes, since there is no benefit to subdividing "Quantum physicists" in this way, any rejected subcategories should merge into "Quantum physicists."
HouseOfChange (
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I agree with HouseOfChange regarding the merging. -
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The result of the discussion was:while there were users in favour of keeping these, I found that the arguments in favour of deletion far more accurately reflected the guidelines found in
WP:OCAWARD (which is really a sub-guideline of the broader
WP:NONDEF): "A category of award recipients should exist only if receiving the award is a defining characteristic for the large majority of its notable recipients". It's clear from how articles address these awards that this high standard has not been met in these cases.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 02:18, 27 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Not defining. Some of the many orders of chivalry awarded to heads of state, consorts and sovereign family members. They are rarely mentioned in the articles, and are certainly not regarded as significant.
Rathfelder (
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Thank you. There are many more, and I'm not suggesting these are special, but I think each order is now complete.
Rathfelder (
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Keep The reason they're is an attempt to delete them is because people don't understand what these are, and that is the reason why they are no in the articles. Awards and honours of these type define the behaviour of great houses, e.g. royalty, aristocracy, religious, dynastic orders that exhibit alliances, trades, accords and marriages and agreements that sometimes go back centuries. It bothers me greatly that nobody understands them, then becomes... just get rid of them. Lets not. The reason that people don't understand them, is folk are usually not privy to it, unless they are either work in a very specialist area of academia, or are they're part of a grand family or group, dynasty of whatever type, is in. Any kind of reading in depth in these areas will show you that. Wikipedia is severely lacking in these areas and including medals and awards. Sometimes types of awards, which is kind of modern version of these are so prestigious that people who are already at the top of their field, work tirelessly and selflessly to achieve them. Lastly has no checked the articles, e.g.
House Order of Fidelity. That is super-weight honour, that you cannot get. It is like hen's teeth. This dude
Max von Bock und Polach has an iron cross and associated categories. Iron crosses were handed out the like water, nobody cared about them, but only 10 people have the
House Order of Fidelity award. I think we should would cherish these wee small categories. It would be absurd to delete them. scope_creepTalk 00:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)reply
The articles I see about European nobility generally have half a dozen of these categories. None of the articles I have read - many hundreds - say anything more than listing the awards, and mostly dont even do that. Often there is a picture of someone who has not actually done anything significant with a load of medals on his chest. I'm not proposing to remove the articles, and most of the articles have long lists of those given the awards, which seems a more appropriate way of dealing with them. If we get rid of the categories which relate to the awards which were given out easily we can leave those which are actually significant.
Rathfelder (
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Delete none of these categories come even close to meeting the very, very, very extremely limited circumstances in which having a category is notable. There is a very high bar for including awards received as a category, and these awards do not meet that. Just to choose one example
Frederick William III of Prussia is in 33 categories, 3 of which are nominated here, and that is not all the award categories he is in. We do not need to categorize everyone by every award they ever received. This is not justified in how it is being done currently and leads to way too much category clutter.
John Pack Lambert (
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Strong Keep categories about the Order of Saint Michael and the Order of the Holy Spirit. These were the highest ranked orders of chivalry in France at the time of the monarchy. About their defining status, you can hardly find an era portrait of a member of the order without prominently displaying its distinctive light blue sash (and not among a Soviet-style library of medals):
It'a a very pretty sash, but is Richlieu in any way defined by it? Is it mentioned in the article? It would be more defining if he wasn't awarded it.
Rathfelder (
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Delete all. Place Clichy makes a point that many important people had it and were proud of it, but all these folks were notable absent it which disproves that it defined them.
Carlossuarez46 (
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While that may be so, he was known as a naval aviator and a commander in the United States Coast Guard, not as an award winner. Regardless what is on his grave, it is not defining from an encyclopedial perspective.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 18:58, 12 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment "Category clutter" isn't a thing. File systems are effectively global and have been for some time. It doesn't exist. There is no reason why there is shouldn't be a category per award, it just needs work, to make it work. It puzzles me why folk don't see the value here, when it staring everybody in the face. Perhaps you have not read widely enough. It also seems curious that if it wasn't that important, in each portrait they wearing every award they have. They seem to think it is important. scope_creepTalk 00:07, 13 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I dont know what "File systems are effectively global" means, or why you think it relevant. But there certainly are plenty of complaints about over-categorisation. It doesnt help anybody to give monarchs and nobility half a dozen title related categories, mostly not mentioned in the articles, which do nothing to show why the person is notable, or why they were awarded.
Rathfelder (
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Interesting, I look at those same portraits where they collect "chivalry" awards like stamps or Pokémon cards and think how absolutely irrelevant they are since it's usually just an inevitable result of being born a high ranking noble, which they generally are already categorized for. -
RevelationDirect (
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Yes, they are proud of them. Why is it that they are still given out by boat load, by every Monarch in the world. There is a famous quote by Napoleon: Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war Here is a another one by Napoleon. Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. I could spend between six and 12 hours, do some research and find some quotes by Prince Adalbert and his love of medals. Here is a page on
[1] the Kaiser, a relative. Look at the busts. They have the medal carved in the busts. scope_creepTalk 12:28, 13 January 2021 (UTC)reply
The comment about "collecting" these chivalry awards on portraits cannot be more wrong. The Saint Michael collar was the only collar ever worn over ecclesiastical dress in French monarchy times. Of course the orders of Saint Michael and of the Holy Spirit were awarded to people of a very high social status, but the opposite is not true: the order was very exclusive with a limited number of knights, like the order of the Garter, and few people even of high birth could expect it.
Place Clichy (
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Delete All These area not generally defining to these people and generally reflect rather than created their notability in the article space. In the category space, they are adding non-defining categories that do not aid navigation. -
RevelationDirect (
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Listify. As with all such awards, a list makes far more sense than a category - details such as date of award and reason for award can be added, making for a much more useful list. Why people go create a category rather than a list in the first place baffles me.
Grutness...wha? 01:26, 14 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment -- These are senior national awards from a period when awards were not given with the frequency that they are today. These are different from the diplomatic honours given by one monarch to another, but to those particularly recognised as notable by kings at the time. At worst, listify, but there may be a case for keeping them on the basis that the number of holders at any one time.
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Category:Lionsgate Television drafts
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The result of the discussion was:merge. I too thought there was no categorization scheme for drafts. Perhaps a discussion about these categories would be in order.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 02:54, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Does not need a separate page as the link
Legendary Television is a redirect to
Lionsgate, as there are currently 2 entries.
Starzoner (
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Comment@
Starzoner: Your links are mixing Legendary and Lionsgate. Is that intentional? -
2pou (
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Comment, I was under the impression that we do not categorize drafts. When did this change?
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Category:Sony drafts
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Nominator's rationale:Sony covers lots of topics, not just films and television shows. Its subsidiary
Sony Pictures deals with them.
Entirely composed of tb and films, this isn't just a Sony draft article, but strictly a Sony pictures category
Starzoner (
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Rename per nom. Everything within is from Sony Pictures, so while the existing is correct, the nom is more precise, especially if anyone starts sorting Sony HW, etc. -
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Category:Shaykhavand
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Nominator's rationale:delete per
WP:SMALLCAT and in the spirit of
WP:C2F, the only article is about Isa Khan Safavi or Isa Khan Shaykhavand.
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Category:Talk podcasts
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Nominator's rationale:WP:NONDEFINING because almost all podcasts are "talk" podcasts. The genre is more relevant to radio shows. A discussion to move the category to "Unscripted podcasts" led to the problem of
WP:X or Y. Prior discussion at
the Wikiproject.
TipsyElephant (
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Delete, the purpose of the category is entirely unclear.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete as
WP:NONDEFINING; almost all podcasts are based on talk. Not all, but most, and a category containing nearly all podcast articles doesn't provide much assistance to people. -
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Category:Scripted podcasts
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Delete, the purpose of the category is entirely unclear.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete as
WP:NONDEFINING and to avoid potential subjectivity as pointed out in the linked discussion. -
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Education buildings by city in Sri Lanka
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Nominator's rationale: delete, this is an almost empty category layer except it largely duplicates the tree of schools. There is no other country with a tree like this. If this merge goes ahead, I will nominate the education buildings by district as well, it suffers from the same problem.
Marcocapelle (
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Support. Seems like a unnecessary layer.
Grutness...wha? 01:46, 11 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Support I had to click through several to see what you meant but, yeah, this is redundant. -
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Mayors of places in Romania
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Nominator's rationale: merge per
WP:SMALLCAT, just one or two articles in each of these categories and they are not part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme.
Marcocapelle (
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Support with no prejudice against re-creation if and when these categories get bigger.
Grutness...wha? 01:48, 11 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Merge for Now While these places would have had more than five mayors, most are NN. No objection to recreating any category later if they ever have 5+ potential articles. -
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Category:Sicilian-speaking people by occupation
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Support, with only two subcategories this is a redundant layer.
Marcocapelle (
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Support although I have my doubts that the category itself is justfied. We very rarely categorize people merely by the fact of the language they spoke.
The parent category should also be a container category for sure.
Marcocapelle (
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Week keep. I would say that the category is justified, given that the subcategories are for writers and singers in that language. There seems to be a tree of similar categories for many languages, specifically for occupations related directly to the language (e.g., interpreters, translators, writers, and singers). If consensus is to delete
Category:Sicilian-speaking people by occupation, then a serious look needs to be taken at all the other subcategories of
Category:People by language and occupation.
Grutness...wha? 15:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Remove redundant layer -- The whole tree needs pruning. We have singers, poets, 1 cabaret actor, and one other author, who probably does not write his main works in Sicilian. We can keep singers and poets as subcategories, but everything else should be in the target. It may be some dual upmerging is needed.
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Category:Wydad AC footballers
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Nominator's rationale: It's clear that the club's article mainly discusses the football team, and as a results it's not necessary to include footballers in the category's name instead of players. Also to match other sports clubs in the continent mainly known for their football team such as
Category:Al Ahly SC players and
Category:C.D. Primeiro de Agosto players.
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GiantSnowman 18:45, 10 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Support per nom; parent article is about the football team and we use just 'players' for those categories.
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Raja Casablanca categories
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Requesting the name of these categories to be changed to match the parent article
Raja CA. All should have their name changed to include Raja CA instead of Raja Casablanca.
Ben5218 (
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Comment, you need to list the other categories related to the club as well, and tag their pages.
Marcocapelle (
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Speedy rename per
WP:C2D, consensus reached after RM.
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GiantSnowman 18:45, 10 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Support per nom and C2D.
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Category:Miss Grand International 2018 contestants
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Meanwhile they all have been tagged.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete there is no reason to categorize people by being in a specific competition in a specific year. This is the very definition of a performer by performance category.
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Delete per nom.
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Category:Touhou Project Main Series
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The result of the discussion was:delete. I checked the contents, and all of the articles were already in
Category:Touhou Project games, so there was no merge that was required. I'll leave implementing the rest of what was discussed to
Zxcvbnm or
Marcocapelle.
Good Ol’factory(talk) 02:24, 27 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Incorrect capitalization, as "main series" is not a proper phrase, but a descriptive one. —
Goszei (
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That seems needlessly complex compared to just deleting this category and making a new one, then moving the necessary games over.ZXCVBNM (
TALK) 14:26, 11 January 2021 (UTC)reply
At least it should be merged rather than deleted. From there we might also create a new subcategory.
Marcocapelle (
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As far as I can tell the category is a total overlap so there is nothing to merge. If there is something to merge, of course, merge it.ZXCVBNM (
TALK) 19:05, 12 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I was unaware of the existing video game spin-off catscheme – I support this solution as well. —
Goszei (
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I also support this solution (regardless of how exactly it is carried out on a technical level) as the standard way of categorizing game series with spin-offs and off-shoots.--
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Category:Charlemagne Prize
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This category only contains two articles and I'm not sure they belong together:
1:
Charlemagne Prize: A prize for European integration issued by Aachen, Germany starting in 1950.
2:
European Charlemagne Youth Prize: A youth prize for European integration issued by the European Parliament starting in 2008, but named after and coordinated with the earlier prize.
The two articles already cross-linked and I can't imagine a potential 3rd, 4th or 5th article so the growth potential here is limited. -
RevelationDirect (
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Delete -- We do not need the eponymous category. The recipients have already been listified and deleted.
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Category:Genesis Prize laureates
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The
Genesis Prize is an Israeli award given to "Jews who have attained excellence which they attribute to Jewish values". The articles for winners like Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, actor
Michael Douglas, Kraft Foods CEO
Robert Kraft, and musician
Itzhak Perlman mention the award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem generally defining. Most of the award's coverage is around the large purse (US $1 million) which is typically re-donated by the winner. The contents of the category are already listified right
here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
RevelationDirect (
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Delete this is more overcategorization by award.
John Pack Lambert (
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Delete per nom.
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